I got my husband his dream watch for our 10th anniversary. All he got me was cheap perfume in a plastic bottle. I was so angry, I tossed it aside and never used it. This was our last celebration because he died unexpectedly three weeks later. The pain of losing him was unbearable—I replayed that…
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